I'm Yuudachi, the fourth ship of the Shiratsuyu class.I worked sort of hardish during the Third Battle of the Solomons didn't I?But somehow... the term "Iron Bottom Sound" is really scary, isn't it?

Yuudachi led the battle line to bombard Guadalcanal on 12 November; she took a lot of damage and Samidare rescued most of her crew. USS Portland later sank her off Savo Island - right in the "Ironbottom Sound".About her verbal tic 'っぽい' (ppoi), this is added onto the end of a word to signify a comparison or resemblance rather than the 'valley girl' version of like which is more like a verbal comma. For example kodomoppoi would mean something similar to child-like or childish.

In the third battle of Solomon, captain Kikkawa ordered his men to 'raise the sails' using hammocks to keep up the morale after Yuudachi's engine was disabled; this act angered the Americans as it appeared Yuudachi continued fighting while hanging the 'white flag'. The sail is visible on the second remodel art.

Yuudachi's second remodel reflects her accomplishments in the Guadalcanal Campaign, where she assisted in sinking two converted transports and later damaging a cruiser before being sunk herself.

She bears the title 'Nightmare of Solomon' for reasons explained here.

Her hair becomes messy, gaining a hair clip on the left side, and her eye-color changes dramatically to red. Her artist tweeted that the "flaps" on her hair was to reflect her "ferocious hound (狂犬)"-like history during her final battle. Compare with Shigure.

She acquires a white scarf and a sail with a white flag attached.

Furthermore, her firepower is comparable to that of most Heavy Cruisers.

It was first carried by the sixteenth Torpedo Boat Destroyer of the First Kamikaze class in 1906.

It is now currently carried by a JMSDF Murasame-class destroyer.

Received her Kai Ni on October 16, 2013.

Yuudachi's white sail was incorrectly seen as a flag of surrender, a fact that angered the Americans when she kept on fighting despite raising it. This sail can be seen in her Kai Ni artwork, and reflects the significance.

~poi in Japanese means "maybe", "perhaps" or "seems like", something added to the end of a sentence if the speaker isn't too sure of the result and end up concluding the sentence by guessing. The main reason behind Yuudachi's speech pattern is because no one actually had a clear record of what she actually accomplished in the Guadalcanal Campaign. Even though Yuudachi did wreak havoc in the battle, there are other ships who also claimed the kills. Since her battle records were unclear and involved a lot of guesswork from naval historians from both sides after the war, the game version of Yuudachi landed with the "poi" catchphrase just to reflect that little piece of history. (Yuudachi's library introduction line implies that she wasn't so sure of her own battle result in Guadalcanal, either.)